[OpenID] FreeYourID shutting down

[Chris Messina]

And it's hilarious that this happened two months ago. And since I spotted it
on Twitter, I assumed it happened recently.
Carry on, carry on.

Sigh.

On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 9:42 PM, Chris Messina <chris.messina at gmail.com>wrote:

> Ouch... another OpenID provider goes down — and this one even sold people
> their own domain names...
>
> http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/25/freeyourid-gives-up-on-trying-to-monetize-openid/
>
> This is particularly interesting given a recent conversation about Author
> IDs in the academics community, where Geoff Bilder pointed out that people
> don't "own" domains — they lease them, citing that as an argument against
> OpenID:
>
>
> http://network.nature.com/people/mfenner/blog/2009/02/17/interview-with-geoffrey-bilder
>
> http://themindwobbles.wordpress.com/2009/08/22/breakout-3-author-identity-creating-a-new-kind-of-reputation-online/
>
> Perhaps companies like FreeYourID and Vidoop were simply too early — it
> certainly seems like there's plenty of value locked up in owning your own
> data and digital identity, but the value prop just isn't obvious enough to
> most people... yet.
>
> Chris
>
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